Needlecase
Category
Dolls
Date
Unknown
Materials
Bisque doll with woollen needlecase
Measurements
410 mm (height)
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Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 657390
Summary
A bisque-headed doll with open and shut blue glass eyes, open mouth with teeth and a long brown mohair wig. Composition body, arms, hands, legs and feet. The latter are painted black to imitate heeled shoes with double ankle straps, wearing a very pale green silk or satin wide ribbon at front and back. Underneath are four lengths of cream wool, two each at front and back, attached to which are haberdashers' pins and safety pins. Some have coloured bead heads. Wearing matching green silk or satin mob cap. Both the cap and the broad green silk ribbon are trimmed with narrow pink satin ribbons. White cotton petticoat trimmed with lace at arm holes.
Provenance
Loaned to the Museum of Childhood by the Betty Cadbury Trust Sudbury in May 1993.